Improvement in meat-biscuits



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ALEXANDER KIRKWOoD', or TORONTO, CANADA.

Letters Patent No. 113,063, dated March 28, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN M EAT-BISCUITS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thelame.

Be-it known that I, ALEXANDER KIRKWOOD, of the city of Toronto, in thecounty of York, province of Ontario, Dominion of Canada, gentleman, haveinvented a new, useful, and vendible composition of matter, to he calledKirkwoods Meat or Soup-Biscuit; and the following is an exactspecification thereof.

The invention consists in comminuting fresh unboiled beef, fat and leantogether, and kneading thoroughly therewith finely-ground pease andbean-meal, mechanically, without water or other liquid, and withoutheat, in the proportion of about equal weights of meal and meat.

This composition is rolled or pressed and out of any size or form, anddried at a temperature below 140 Fahrenheit.

I do not claim the use of any extract of meat, or

of any condiment, or of any acid, or of any carbonaceous material topreserve my biscuit, or as an anti- J. 0. GRAY, J OHN Lays.

